Eleri Harris will moderate a panel of cartoonists including Matt Bors, Chelsea Saunders, Matt Lubchansky, and Niccolo Pizarro to explore the social relevance of comics and their relationship to politics in the run-up to the election.This event streams today at 5pm Eastern. You can watch it live here.
We’ll begin gently.The sheet with all the eye-holes was Linus’s costume, not Charlie Brown’s. I don’t have an exact date for this strip, because I encountered it in a collection, not the newspaper. But it ran in the late 50s, when Linus was still a toddler.I bring it up now because the Peanuts Halloween special […]
Lalo Alcaraz Retains His Young Self’s Zeal A memorable video from a Telemundo show in 1994 features a man with his hair all poofed up, oversized sunglasses, a shabby coat and a big wide tie. The man identified as “Daniel De Portado” and supposedly represented a group called “Hispanics for Wilson” (referring to Pete Wilson, […]
From My Twin Tiers: ENDICOTT, NEW YORK (WETM-TV)- The DICK’S Sporting Goods Open announced the event’s 2021 date as well as a new 50th-anniversary logo to coincide with the semi-centennial playing of Broome County’s premier professional sports event. The 2021 event, which will be played as part of the Champions Tour’s combined 2020-21 calendar due […]
It’s gonna take some explanation to get to why I’m opening today with Pia Guerra (the Nib)‘s depiction of Dear Leader and Leslie Stahl.Yesterday, I began reading a fascinating takedown of the Foxxconn con-job at the Verge (h/t to the Bulwark), and I found it absolutely hilarious, because I spent enough of my career covering […]
Cartoonist Basil Wolverton spent the better part of his career creating ideas in an attempt to get a nationally syndicated comic strip running in newspapers. On October 21, 1946 he succeeded.But only for that one day, and only for one panel.Li’l Abner © Capp Enterprises, Inc. Lena the HyenaAs detailed in Brain Bats of Venus: The […]
The book business is seeing a better year, as Publishers Weekly reports. A number of big summer bestsellers, a surge in interest in books on social justice, and ongoing demand by parents for children’s books that both educate and entertain combined to continue to push up unit sales of print books through this year’s third […]
We’re down to about two weeks before the election and, as Ann Telnaes (WashPost) puts it, Dear Leader is trotting out the raw meat (and viruses) for his supporters in a final push, amid reports that debate organizers are going to mute the opposing microphones Thursday during the two minutes each candidate gets to answer […]
Scott Adams is appearing everywhere today. Of course there’s the thousand plus newspapers where his Dilbert appears every day. Then there is his daily Real Coffee with Scott Adams video. Also today he appeared on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber (video not yet available).Very early this morning The Right’s Townhall had an article where […]
Improv Conference invites you to join a Jules Feiffer webinar. Join us for an intimate filmed portrait of the legendary cartoonist, screenwriter and author JULES FEIFFER in conversation with Michael Tisserand, author of Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White. In the film, the 91 year old Feiffer looks back over his extraordinary […]
Cartoonist and editor Lex Fajardo is the latest guest on Geoff Grogan’s “Blockhead” podcast. From Geoff’s podcast page:To help celebrate the 70th anniversary of “Peanuts” debut, Lex Fajardo of Schulz Creative Associates and “Kid Beowulf” joins Geoff for a wonderful conversation about his new Kickstarter and “the comics we love.” Fajardo’s bio from GoComics: Alexis E. Fajardo […]
Steve Brodner (Ind) starts us off with the State of the Disunion.It’s a touchy situation, because, on the one hand, people still need to show up and vote or we’re back where we landed in 2016.On the other hand, it’s encouraging and uplifting to see how the people appear to be rising up against the […]
Art Spiegelman artwork © Art SpiegelmanIn the age-old discussion about when comics finally “grew up” Maus is often exhibit A. The New Yorker called it “the first masterpiece in comic-book history”. It’s the comic that people who don’t read comics have read, and the only graphic novel ever to have won a Pulitzer prize. Forty […]
After fallout from a liberal cartoonist’s political opinion The Lewiston Tribune sampled various conservative editorial cartoonists and polled their readers about preferences. The results are in. The Lewiston Tribune has added A.F. Branco of Creators Syndicate to its lineup of political cartoonists. That decision reflects the preference of Tribune readers. Among those who responded to […]
Tom Toles (WashPost) gives a warning about the scary times to come in the next two and a half weeks.Facing what appears to be total disaster, Dear Leader and his acolytes have thrown caution and taste to the winds in a desperate attempt to do something or other.It’s not clear what. Mike Thompson (USA Today) cites […]